Bill, "waste your life is relative". It's a false judgement. In reality nothing is "wasted".
Edgar On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Bill! wrote: > Why Meditate? Sogyal Rinpoche writes: "Generally we waste our lives, > distracted from our true selves, in endless activity; meditation, on the > other hand, is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really > experience and taste our full being, beyond all habitual patterns. Our lives > are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and > aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing, and achieving, forever > burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations. > > Meditation is the exact opposite. To meditate is to make a complete break > with how we "normally" operate, for it is a state free of all cares and > concerns, in which there is no competition, no desire to possess or grasp at > anything, no intense and anxious struggle, and no hunger to achieve: an > ambitionless state where there is neither acceptance nor rejection, neither > hope nor fear, a state in which we slowly begin to release all those emotions > and concepts that have imprisoned us into the space of natural simplicity." > --The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying pages 58-59 > >
